I'm an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Sometimes I blog about my research, but mostly I just write about whatever I find interesting. This blog is bilingual, not easily categorized and has a tendency to remain silent.

Here are the noteworthy links for last week. I will start with a link to a blog post by Daniel Russell, from Google, who asks his readers to answer the question “Where am I?” in as much detail as possible solely by gathering information from the following image:

By analyzing this picture, can you tell where the photographer was?

On another post he then shows how you can find out exactly where this is (including a phone number for the office), by using some simple tricks.

The rest of the links are below:

FF Chartwell: an interesting new typeface (i.e. font) that can directly be used to generate graphs.

Here are the noteworthy links for last week. I will start with a link to a blog post by Daniel Russell, from Google, who asks his readers to answer the question “Where am I?” in as much detail as possible solely by gathering information from the following image:

By analyzing this picture, can you tell where the photographer was?

On another post he then shows how you can find out exactly where this is (including a phone number for the office), by using some simple tricks.

The rest of the links are below:

FF Chartwell: an interesting new typeface (i.e. font) that can directly be used to generate graphs.